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Animal Farm the Russian Revolution

By battleofbunkerhill

  • Trotsky is forced to resign as head of the Red Army

    Trotsky is forced to resign as head of the Red Army
  • Period: to

    Animal Farm Russian Revolution

  • A terrorist attack by Bulgarian communists blows up the Cathedral of Sofia and kills 140 dignitaries

    A terrorist attack by Bulgarian communists blows up the Cathedral of Sofia and kills 140 dignitaries

  • Thousands of people are killed in an uprising in Chechnya

    Thousands of people are killed in an uprising in Chechnya

  • Kamenev demands that Stalin be fired from the position of general secretary

    Kamenev demands that Stalin be fired from the position of general secretary

  • Zinoviev and Kamenev form the "United Opposition" against Stalin, who forms an alliance Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov, while Trotsky remains neutral

    Zinoviev and Kamenev form the "United Opposition" against Stalin, who forms an alliance Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov, while Trotsky remains neutral

  • Stalin launches a new persecution of kulaks (the second "peasant war") that causes more than one thousand riots in two years

    Stalin launches a new persecution of kulaks (the second "peasant war") that causes more than one thousand riots in two years

  • The Soviet Union announces a plan of "mass collectivization" and The government begins an anti-religious campaign

    The Soviet Union announces a plan of "mass collectivization" and The government begins an anti-religious campaign

  • Stalin calls for full collectivization and orders the persecution of "kulaks" (rich farmers), a campaign that will cause the deportation of 15 million peasants to the Arctic regions and the death of 6.5 million peasants

    Stalin calls for full collectivization and orders the persecution of "kulaks" (rich farmers), a campaign that will cause the deportation of 15 million peasants to the Arctic regions and the death of 6.5 million peasants

  • Work begins on the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal (Belomorkanal), the first major project that employed forced labor (the 100,000 prisoners of the Belbaltlag camp)

    Work begins on the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal (Belomorkanal), the first major project that employed forced labor (the 100,000 prisoners of the Belbaltlag camp)
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    One million people in Kazakhstan die of famine (caused by forced collectivization), and two million emigrated (1.5 million to China and 500,000 to Central Asia)

  • Stalin orders that people be forbidden to leave the areas affected by the famine

    Stalin orders that people be forbidden to leave the areas affected by the famine

  • Stalin's collaborator Sergey Kirov is assassinated and blame is placed on Trotsky, prompting Stalin to begin the "Great Terror" to annihilate the Communist Party's left and right wings, led respectively by Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin

    Stalin's collaborator Sergey Kirov is assassinated and blame is placed on Trotsky, prompting Stalin to begin the "Great Terror" to annihilate the Communist Party's left and right wings, led respectively by Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin

  • The Norilsk camp is set up to provide the labor force for a nickel production center in the Arctic Circle

    The Norilsk camp is set up to provide the labor force for a nickel production center in the Arctic Circle

  • The Soviet Union decides to send military aid and advisers (more than 2,000) to help the communists in Spain

    The Soviet Union decides to send military aid and advisers (more than 2,000) to help the communists in Spain

  • Stalin launches a campaign against "deviationism" that leads to the arrest of thousands of intellectuals (including scientists such as Andrei Tupolev and Sergei Korolev and writers such as Isaac Babel and Osip Mandelstam)

    Stalin launches a campaign against "deviationism" that leads to the arrest of thousands of intellectuals (including scientists such as Andrei Tupolev and Sergei Korolev and writers such as Isaac Babel and Osip Mandelstam)

  • Lavrenti Beria replaces Nikolai Ezhov as head of the secret police (NKVD), an event that ends the "Great Terror" (1.5 million people have been arrested in two years, 680 thousand have been executed, and more than 100 thousand have died in camps)

    Lavrenti Beria replaces Nikolai Ezhov as head of the secret police (NKVD), an event that ends the "Great Terror" (1.5 million people have been arrested in two years, 680 thousand have been executed, and more than 100 thousand have died in camps)

  • Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact including the partition of Poland (and assigns the Baltic states, Finland and Romania's Bessarabia to the Soviet Union)

    Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact including the partition of Poland (and assigns the Baltic states, Finland and Romania's Bessarabia to the Soviet Union)

  • Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union

    Finland surrenders to the Soviet Union

  • Germany invades Russia (190 German divisions, 10 Romanian divisions, 9 Romanian and 4 Hungarian brigades) and immediately seizes the Baltic states

    Germany invades Russia (190 German divisions, 10 Romanian divisions, 9 Romanian and 4 Hungarian brigades) and immediately seizes the Baltic states

  • The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is established

    The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is established

  • Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at the Tehran Conference

    Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at the Tehran Conference

  • The Soviet Union invades Yugoslavia

    The Soviet Union invades Yugoslavia

  • The Soviet Union attacks Japan in Manchuria, taking Sakhalin and the Kuril islands

    The Soviet Union attacks Japan in Manchuria, taking Sakhalin and the Kuril islands